A strongly polynomial algorithm for generalized flow maximization

Végh, László A. ORCID: 0000-0003-1152-200X (2016) A strongly polynomial algorithm for generalized flow maximization. Mathematics of Operations Research, 42 (1). pp. 179-211. ISSN 0364-765X

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Abstract

A strongly polynomial algorithm is given for the generalized flow maximization problem. It uses a new variant of the scaling technique, called continuous scaling. The main measure of progress is that within a strongly polynomial number of steps, an arc can be identified that must be tight in every dual optimal solution, and thus can be contracted. As a consequence of the result, we also obtain a strongly polynomial algorithm for the linear feasibility problem with at most two nonzero entries per column in the constraint matrix.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/moor
Additional Information:	© 2016 INFORMS
Divisions:	Mathematics
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics
Date Deposited:	13 Mar 2017 11:49
Last Modified:	26 Jan 2025 22:51
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/69679

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